September 2015 SPADA Meeting

CHAIR BIOS:  WORKING GROUP CHAIRS

Linda C. Beck, PhD, MT (ASCP)  

Naval Surface Warfare Center  SPADA COXIELLA BURNETII WORKING GROUP CO‐CHAIR 

Dr. Linda Beck works for the Department of Defense at the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren  Division (NSWCDD) as a Lead Scientist/Microbiologist in the CBR Concepts and Experimentation Branch.  Prior to her current position, she worked for the Department of Homeland Security for three years, and  served as the Deputy Program Manager and Director for Laboratory Operations for the BioWatch  Program, the biosurveillance system designed to detect select aerosolized biological agents.  Preceding  her DHS position, Dr. Beck was working at NSWCDD and developed and implemented the BioWatch  Quality Assurance Samples laboratory and served as the Program Manager for the DHS effort at  Dahlgren. During that tenure, she also served as the Head of the Micro/Molecular Biology Section,  supported the development of methods for testing the efficacy of decontaminants on biotoxins, and  served as a Chem/Bio Subject Matter Expert on the Hazard Mitigation, Materiel and Equipment  Restoration Advance Technology Demonstration program sponsored by the Defense Threat Reduction  Agency, Joint Science and Technology Office (DTRA JSTO).    In addition to her Federal government work, Dr. Beck has 15 years of experience in a career in academia.   She was a professor in the Biological Sciences Department at the University of Mary Washington prior to  her appointment to serve on the faculty in the School of Allied Health Professions at the Medical College  of Virginia/Virginia Commonwealth University.    Dr. Beck graduated from the Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University (MCV/VCU)  with a PhD in Pathology/Clinical Microbiology followed by two years as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow  in the School of Medicine at MCV/VCU. 

Ted Hadfield, PhD  Owner, Hadeco LLC.  SPADA BACILLUS ANTHRACIS WORKING GROUP CO‐CHAIR 

 Ted L. Hadfield, Ph.D., Co‐chair of the Variols Working Group, graduated from University of Utah in  1976. He did a post doctoral in Clinical Immunology at the Latter Day Saints Hospital in Salt Lake City,  UT. He subsequently was an assistant professor at California State University in Los Angeles. In 1980 he  joined the United States Air Force as a Laboratory Officer. He was stationed at the Armed Forces  Institute of Pathology as Chief of Bacteriology. In 1984 he was transferred to Wilford Hall USAF Medical